Tucanoan languages

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Tucanoan (also Tukanoan, Tukánoan) is a language family of Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru.

[edit] Family division

Tucanoan consists of 15 languages:

I. Western Tucanoan

1. Correguaje (a.k.a. Coreguaje, Caquetá, Korewahe, Koreguaje)

2. Macaguaje (a.k.a. Kakawahe, Piohé, Secoya, Siona-Secoya) (†)

3. Teteté (a.k.a. Tetete, Eteteguaje)

4. Orejón (a.k.a. Coto, Payoguaje, Payaguá, Koto, Payowahe, Payawá)

5. Yauna (a.k.a. Jaúna, Yahuna, Yaúna)

II. Central Tucanoan

6. Cubeo (a.k.a. Cuveo, Kobeua, Kubewa)

III. Eastern Tucanoan

7. Macuna (a.k.a. Buhagana, Wahana, Makuna-Erulia, Makuna)

8. Yupuá-Durina (†)

9. Cueretú (a.k.a. Kueretú) (†)

10. Desano-Siriano (a.k.a. Desano)

11. Bará-Tuyuka (a.k.a. Pocanga, Pakang, Tejuca, Teyuka, Tuyuca, Bara)

12. Carapano (a.k.a. Carapana, Karapana)

13. Tucano (a.k.a. Tukana, Dasea)

14. Guanano (a.k.a. Wanana, Kotedia, Wanana-Pirá)

15. Piratapuyo (a.k.a. Waikina, Uiquina)

Macaguaje, Yupuá-Durina, and Cueretú are now extinct.

Most languages are, or were, spoken in Colombia.

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue: Tucanoan
• Proel: Familia Tucanoana

[edit] Bibliography

• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13-67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.